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Samsung's profits nearly double on phone, chip sales

2013-01-08 14:36:40| InfoWorld: Top News

Samsung Electronics said its operating profit nearly doubled in the fourth quarter, on strong sales of high-end smartphones and the growth of its processor business for mobile devices. The world's largest handset, memory chip and TV maker reported an estimated operating profit of 8.8 trillion won ($8.2 billion) for the October-December period, up from 4.66 trillion won a year earlier. Its estimated revenue was 56 trillion won in the quarter.

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AMD shows off Windows 8 tablet with upcoming Tamesh chip

2013-01-08 14:22:31| InfoWorld: Top News

Advanced Micro Devices showed off a Windows 8 tablet running the company's upcoming tablet chip code-named Temash, which the company hopes will reverse a string of past failures and provide enough ammunition to compete with tablet chip leaders ARM and Intel. The prototype tablet made by Wistron has a 10.6-inch screen and plays full 1080p high-definition video. AMD has mostly been repurposing netbook chips for tablets, and the tablet demonstration was intended to showcase the progress made by AMD in making chips exclusively for tablets.

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Broadcom Unveils World's First UltraHD TV Home Gateway Chip

2013-01-08 14:20:09| Digital TV News

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced the world's first Ultra TV video decoder IC. The 28nm ARM-based BCM7445 supports the HEVC video coding standard and can simultaneously deliver four transcoded HD video streams over IP for content on any screen.

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Broadcom chip ushers in H.265 and UltraHD video

2013-01-08 14:00:00| CNET News.com

The H.265 video standard, aka HEVC or MPEG-5, squeezes more pixels over a network connection to support new high-resolution 4K TVs. Broadcom's chip supports both and is due to arrive in volume next year. [Read more]

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